I’m not an Ubuntu user so I can’t comment on anyone’s trouble with using it on the Aspire One. I would also expect the same from whatever Linux distribution was chosen to be preinstalled as well.
I think though that you should place “I” in bold instead of “NEED” as I would certainly expect a preinstalled Vista to be properly tweaked by Microsoft and/or the netbook manufacturer.
Other than these two problems, and the much smaller problem (comparatively) of some apps not fitting on 1024×600, everything else works fine. I have applied any tip imaginable to make the system faster, but all I get is slowness, slowness and more slowness - followed by small periods of time where not even the mouse moves, and then it comes back to life. The kernel drivers/code that deal with flash still need a lot of work. In fact, no Linux distro is (not even when in cellphones). Ubuntu is simply not optimized to run on flash. The flash-based Aspire One is one slow son of a bitch. Yes, I have tried both wifi drivers for that chipset, same problem with both (trust me, I’ve done my research).Ģ. I am willing to bet that there are different iterations of the hardware chip used. For some people wifi seems to work fine, for some it doesn’t. I had to literally delve into some new kind of configuration that it is NOT mentioned in that AspireOne Ubuntu help pages. My wireless hardware does NOT work if I was coming back from “sleep”.
Two things, after months of using that system with Ubuntu 8.10:ġ. Otherwise, I would have loved to try out Arch on this as I have heard a lot of good things about it and haven’t used it of yet. In the end, I just didn’t have the time to keep on trying distribution after failing distribution.
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In all honesty, I had tried several other distributions including (but not limited to) a BSD, Arch, and RiscOS, but either they didn’t work with Unetbootin (I wasn’t very willing to try making it bootable from the USB drive another way– I had tried other ways that failed as well and were much more time consuming) or they weren’t live installers and instead needed to boot up and download the data to install these didn’t work with a wireless or a wired connection on my One. You have good points on that I should have reviewed other systems. For my desktop, I still prefer using Adobe Photoshop and Premiere on Windows, but I still can get along just as well on Linux. Otherwise, many of the programs available for Ubuntu and many other open source OSs I think work very well, especially for a netbook.
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If you missed the part that said, “If the wireless was included naturally in the distribution without having to do any serious tweaking, Ubuntu would be as ready and as able (if not more) than Windows 7 to be a netbook system.”Īs for my ‘must have apps,’ the only one for me really is Microsoft Access 2007 to manage the finances I previously mentioned. The reason it got less of a score than 7? Well, perhaps wireless not working out of the box isn’t much of a problem for others, but it’s personally rather annoying. Both were a bit slower with opening programs than other systems– that was the biggie. For all intensive purposes, Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows 7 seemed to run about at the same pace. I didn’t run any benchmarks– I merely measured the user experience. Interesting you give Ubuntu less marks than Windows 7 even though Windows 7 runs slower However, Moblin definitely has potential and I hope to see it go far. I reviewed these with a netbook in mind, not an MID. Netbook-wise, the system gets a 4 and for good reason– it just doesn’t work so snazzily on a netbook. Maybe (for OSnews, after all) you could’ve tried a BSD, OpenSolaris?Įxactly, but even still– the particular version was made for netbooks (even though it’ll be ported to handheld devices later on). Everyone and their dog has written reviews on XP, 7 and Ibex on netbooks. Out of all the Acer Aspire reviews on the net i’d give this one a very generous 6. It is also better optimized for netbooks and would have likely been your winner. Jaunty includes most of the well known netbook’s hardware drivers out of the box. Surely in a netbook start-up speed and access to programmes are preferable, and maybe you’re a bit biased as your ‘must have apps’ are Windows only?Īlso quite unfortunate you didn’t choose to use Jaunty Jackalope alpha instead of 8.10 for a bit of differentiation between this and every other Acer Aspire review on the net-o-sphere. Interesting you give Ubuntu less marks than Windows 7 even though Windows 7 runs slower. You should remember than Moblin is also more-or-less geared towards touchscreen devices more than netbooks – hence why you think it looks more like a glorified calculator.
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